More than one hundred years after her birth, Ayn Rand's books,thoughts, and actions continue to be important to many people.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

She released her first children's books in nineteen seventy, a year after her first book of poetry was published.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

Nate smiles and told her not to worry about him, after all,he said, Maudie was having the calf-not he.

VOA: special.2010.01.09

She changed her area of study from English to science after she took a biology course that she liked.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

But Marilyn was not happy. She was being asked to repeat her part as a dumb blonde in movie after movie.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

After a few minutes of this, she went to her place at the table and began to eat with her fingers.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

She said if her choices were bad it would not help the black actors who came after her.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

After her death, the employees of The Washington Post wrote: "A world without Katharine Graham will not be the same at all."

VOA: special.2009.04.26

Her sister became a sculptor. After finishing high school at the age of eighteen, Diane married Allan Arbus.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

After her trips, Margaret Mead always returned to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

Caroline Cleveland was right. She and her husband moved back into the White House after he became president again in eighteen ninety-three.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

The twenty-nine-year-old performer became very popular after her album "Begin to Hope" was released in two thousand six.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

Merry arrived seven years after her mother had her first child and she was quite a Christmas gift.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

She was named after her father's only brother, who died a few years before she was born.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

Immediately after her death, Kay Yow was honored at many college basketball games, both women's and men's.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

"My mother's was Virginia so we named after her and my wife Caty's middle name is Allison.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

The state governor freed her, but only after the United States Senate ordered an investigation into conditions in the West Virginia coal fields.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

One of his patients asked if someone might be given her pacemaker for reuse after she died.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

She became well-known after Republican presidential candidate John McCain chose her as his vice presidential running mate.

VOA: special.2009.01.03